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Focus on education and social inclusion.
Set of eight booklets produced by The Education Network
and covering a range of areas: raising the attainment of minority
ethnic groups; improving pupil attendance and exclusions;
children in public care; neighbourhood nurseries; schools
as community centres; integrated approaches to social inclusion;
a children's strategy; and education and regeneration. Cost
£32 per set (£16 for TEN subscribers).
Contact: The Education Network, 22 Upper Woburn Place, London
WC1H 0TB. Tel: 020 7554 2810. Fax: 020 7554 2801.
Tacking Social Exclusion: empowering
people and communities for a better future. DfES publication
to accompany a speech made by David Blunkett on 16 June 1999,
setting out the DfEE agenda for building an inclusive society.
Printed copies of this publication may be obtained from: DfEE
Publications, PO Box 5050, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 6ZQ Tel:
0845 6022260. Fax: 0845 6033360. Email: dfes@prolog.uk.com.
Quote reference EPCBF.
Social Exclusion and the Politics
of Opportunity: a mid-term progress check. DfEE publication
to accompany a speech made by David Blunkett on 3 November
2000. This builds on the issues and themes set out in an earlier
DfES publication, 'Tacking Social Exclusion: empowering people
and communities for a better future' (see above).
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The following websites focus on support for pupils who are
bullied:
Writing for a Change-Boosting Literacy
and Learning Through Social Action: The National Youth
Agency has published Writing for a Change as part of the National
Writing Project. The book is a guide for teachers and youth
workers on how to engage young people in collaborations on
social problems they themselves choose as a means to help
them develop their own voice and a passion for reading and
writing. Writing for Change is available for £15.99 from the
NYA. For more information call 0116 242 7427 or email
sales@nya.org.uk.
A Guide to Promising Approaches
is a report by the charity, Communities that Care, funded
by the Rowntree Foundation that highlights the approaches
that work best with deprived and disaffected young people.
It lists approaches that have been effective and produces
the evidence for that success. In areas where little evaluation
has taken place including many youth work and regeneration
intiatives it indicates what is considered to be good practice
by those in the field. Education-related initiatives
such as family literacy schemes and after-school clubs dominate
the guide. The guide's author, David Utting, commented that
the charity depended on a holistic approach tackling several
problems in parallel. The section on schools includes family
literacy, Reading Recovery and the literacy hour. Cost
£19.95
Contact: Communities that Care, Rosebery House, 70 Rosebery
Avenue, London EC1R 3RR.
Barrington Stoke books.
Barrington Stoke specialises in publishing books for reluctant,
disenchanted and under-confident readers, from young children
to teenagers and adults. The Barrington Stoke website features
extracts of all children's titles, as well as interviews with
authors, competitions, games and news. See www.barringtonstoke.co.uk.
For a free pack giving information about special discounts
and titles, send a postcard stating which age group you are
interested in (8-13, 13-16 or adults) and your full name and
address.
Contact: Barrington Stoke, 18 Walker Street, Edinburgh EH3 7LP. Tel: 0131 225 4113. Fax:
0131 557 6060.
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This guide offers assistance to any organisation drawing up
a strategy for consulting children and young people and contains
a resource list and practical exercises to use when working
with young children and those aged seven and above. Cost £3.95
Contact: ISBN 184187051X. Save the Children Publications,
17 Grove Lane, London SE5 8RD. Tel: 020 7703 5400. Website:
www.savethechildren.org.uk.
Full On! A magazine funded
by LEAs and CfBT for teenagers that provides information on
school, the future, exams, interests and life. Also has pages
about football and music. Contact contact@fullonmag.com.
Tel: 020 7607 5458.
Getting Connected curriculum.
Developed by the Young Adults Learning Partnership, Getting
Connected offers a set of learning outcomes and criteria for
assessment in areas such as self-awareness, handling relationships
and managing self. The aim is to help disaffected young people
to reconnect with learning and foster their personal development.
YALP is a joint initiative between the National Youth Agency
and the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education.
Contact: Getting Connected, National Youth Agency, 17-23 Albion
Street, Leicester LE1 6GD. Tel: 0116 285 3744. Website: www.gettingconnected.org.uk.
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Free guide to the different options available
for accrediting experience gained by young people during youth
work. Covers major programmes such as the Duke of Edinburgh's
Award, and Scouts and Guides, to a variety of smaller schemes.
Contact the National Youth Agency on 0116 285 3700.
Nugent Education design and
deliver hip-hop/rap and music production workshops in partnership
with schools and other organisations, such as youth offending
teams. Rap is used as a medium through which literacy and
communication skills can be taught, with participants learning
about ‘tools’ such as metaphor, simile, alliteration,
rhyme and assonance. The workshops also aim to encourage self
esteem and communication skills, such as voice projection,
breathing technique, stage presence and confidence. For more
information contact Leighton Nugent on 0151 426 6699 Email: info@nugenteducation.co.uk
Web: www.nugenteducation.co.uk
Rethinking School: some international
perspectives. A cross-national look at the relationship
between economic, labour market and employment change and
change in family life and parenting, exploring how differing
understandings of childhood in each country affect the approaches
taken to children's and young people's services. Cost £12.95.
ISBN 0 86155 212 1
Contact: National Youth Agency, Sales Department, 17-23 Albion
Street, Leicester LE1 6GD. Tel: 0116 285 3709.
The Reading Kit. A pack for
librarians and youth workers working in partnership, produced
as a result of the NYR funded BOOX For Us project. Contains
background information; lessons from the project; tips on
getting started, keeping going and measuring success; how
to create a young-person-friendly library; and further contact
details. A follow-up pack, The Reading
Kit 2, has also since been produced. Cost £7.50
each.
Contact: Sales Department, National Youth Agency, 17-23 Albion
Street, Leicester LE1 6GD. Tel: 0116 285 3709.
School, Family, Community: mapping
school inclusion in the UK. A report addressing
the effects and effectiveness of school-family-community links
in the UK by identifying evaluative evidence, including parental
involvement in children's learning, communication between
home and school, and the broader community role of schools,
as well as the implications for research, policy and practice
in the field. Cost £13.95. ISBN 0 86155 213 X
Contact: National Youth Agency, Sales Department, 17-23 Albion
Street, Leicester LE1 6GD. Tel: 0116 285 3709.
That Reading Thing.
A basic literacy method for disaffected teenagers and young
people who struggle with reading. It aims to be especially
suitable for those from marginalised groups and people with
very low literacy, for example, those who cannot make progress
in courses where literacy is embedded in another activity.
Provides a training package and materials that can be used by non-literacy specialists working with young people, as
well as school or college tutors.
Contact: Tricia Millar. Tel: 0151 334 3510. Email: welcome@thatreadingthing.com.
Website: www.thatreadingthing.com
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Making a difference: preventing crime
through youth activity. Report from NACRO, published
in March 2000, showing that the link between crime and boredom
among disaffected youngsters in deprived urban areas is more
than merely anecdotal. According to the report, teenage crime
has been cut by up to 70% in some parts of the country through
a series of special projects including after-school and holiday
clubs. Cost £3.
Contact: NACRO, 169 Clapham Road, London SW9 OPU.
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A Suitcase Full of Emotions.
A volume of poems, stories and pictures by children and
young people in care in Essex. Cost £2.
Call Essex libraries on 01245 434247 or 01245 434179, or purchase
a copy from Chelmsford Library.
Access to Books and Reading Projects
for Young People in Public Care: The Librarians' Training
Kit. An information pack produced by John Vincent of
The Network - tackling social exclusion in libraries, museums
archives and galleries. Covers topics including the services
libraries could be providing to these young people, the needs
of carers, outreach, partnership working and sources of funding.
For more details visit www.seapn.org.uk/phf.html
or email john@nadder.org.uk
Believe in me. Magazine
for designated teachers of children in care, jointly produced
by the National Literacy Association and the Who Cares? Trust.
It focuses on a wide range of issues that can impact on the
literacy of children in care and gives guidance to designated
teachers on providing support. The Department for Education
and Skills supported the distrubition of the magazine to all
designated teachers. Additional copies are available from
the National Literacy Association or the Who Cares? Trust.
Contact: National Literacy Association, First floor, Leonard
House, 321 Bradford Street, Digbeth, Birmingham B5 6ET. Tel:
0121 622 5143. Email: email@nla.org.uk.
Website: www.nla.org.uk.
Breaking their
fall: meeting the literacy needs of looked-after children.
An excellent publication produced by the National Literacy
Association and The Who Cares? Trust which addresses the needs
of looked-after children and the support local authorities
and care homes can provide. An accompanying video, complete
with training notes, is also available and a pack containing
the video, training notes and 10 copies of the magazine costs
£35 (including p&p).
Contact: The Who Cares? Trust, Kemp House, 152-160 City Road,
London EC1V 2NP Tel: 020 7251 3117 Fax: 020 7251 3123, or
visit www.thewhocarestrust.org.uk/publications.htm
Children's Workforce Development Council online resources.
This is an online resource guide to support directors of children's
services, children's trusts, local authorities, health bodies
and other employers in the development of their local and
organisational workforce development strategies. To view and
download the resources visit www.cwdcouncil.org.uk/advice
Choices: an interactive study pack
for foster carers. Choices is a pack designed to help
foster carers top enable young people to take a more active
role in making decisions about their education and their future.
The materials focus on education, skills, identity and self-esteem,
and include a foster carers' guide and activity cards for
young people. Cost £10 (discounts for 20 or more copies).
Contact: The Who Cares? Trust, Kemp House, 152-160 City Road,
London EC1V 2NP. Tel: 020 7251 3117. Fax: 020 7251 3123.
DfES local authorities guide.
Department for Education and Skills guidance helps local authorities
implement their duty to promote the educational achievement
of looked-after children. It sets out the steps to be taken
so that all looked-after children of school age have an effective
and high-quality personal education plan. www.dfes.gov.uk
Right to Read. A Who
Cares? Trust/National Literacy Association initiative that
works in partnership with selected local authorities, including
Blackburn, London Borough of Islington, Kirklees, St Helens
and Somerset, to ensure that young people in care have access
to books. An evaluation report is available for £6.95.
Read an article from Literacy Today on Right
to Read.
Contact: The Who Cares? Trust, Kemp House, 152-160 City Road,
London EC1V 2NP. Tel: 020 7251 3117. Fax: 020 7251 3123.
More
information on the National Literacy Association and Who Cares?
Trust partnership
Taking Part:
Making out-of-school hours learning happen for children in
care. A document
aiming to help those working in children's services to work
in partnership with other agencies in making study support/out-of-school
hours learning an integral part of raising the achievement
of looked-after children and of good corporate parenting.
Produced by the education charity ContinYou and free to download
from http://publications.teachernet.gov.uk
Writing for fun. The Who Cares?
Trust has produced this free booklet to encourage children
in care to write creatively outside of school, with friends,
social workers or carers. The booklet has been sent via local
authorities to all 8 to 12-year-olds in care. It has also
been effectively used with older children with English as
an additional language, and as a training resource for foster
carers. Contact the Who Cares? Trust on 020 7251 3117.
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Basic Skills for Housing Organisations.
Booklet produced by the Basic Skills Agency which examines
why housing organisations should be concerned about the basic
skills of the people they work for, and provides practical
suggestions for improving basic skills. Available free of
charge.
Contact the Basic Skills Agency publications line on 0870
600 2400.
The Core Skills Training Pack.
Contact London Connection on 020 7766 5555.
Get Up and Go Game. Details
of the City Centre Project's peer education programme.
Contact Alistair Hay on 0161 228 7654/5.
Homefront Initiative.
Call 0117 983 8823.
Crisis Changing Lives pack.
Contact: Caroline Porter, Crisis, Challenger House, 42 Adler
Street, London E1 1EE.
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The National Mentoring Network.
The Network has information on new and existing schemes for
disaffected youth and issues a quarterly bulletin.
Contact the Network on 0161 787 8600.
The Divert Mentoring Handbook.
Advice on how to set up and run a mentoring project. Cost
£1.50 to cover p&p.
Contact: Divert Trust, 33 King Street, London WC2E 8JD. Tel:
020 7379 6171.
The African and Afro-Caribbean People's
Advisory Group. A south London charity helping families
with school issues, which has run over 300 youth mentoring
schemes.
Tel: 020 8667 9222.
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Branching Out. Report on community
regeneration projects in eight secondary schools nationwide,
set in neighbourhoods which are very different from each other
but which suffer from disadvantage of one kind or another.
Includes examples of how the schools have created exciting
and sustainable programmes. Cost £9.95 (plus £1
p&p).
Contact: ContinYou, Unit C1, Grovelands Court, Grovelands
Estate, Longford Road, Exhall, Coventry CV7 9NE. Tel: 024
7658 8440. Email: info@continyou.org.uk.
www.continyou.org.uk.
Changing neighbourhoods, changing
lives: the vision for neighbourhood renewal. Free
booklet produced by the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit to set
out the main aims of the neighbourhood renewal agenda and
explain how all the different elements, including funding
strands, fit together.
Contact: Neighbourhood Renewal Unit, 4th Floor, Eland House,
Bressenden Place, London SW1E 5DU. Tel: 020 7944 8383. Email:
neighbourhoodrenewal@dtlr.gsi.gov.uk.
Excellence in Cities newsletter. Termly
newsletter providing information for schools and LEAs in the
Excellence in Cities
initiative. Most directly affects the 13 city areas in England
but may be of interest to schools and LEAs in other
urban areas.
Contact: DfEE Publications, PO Box 5050, Sherwood Park, Annesley,
Nottingham NG15 0DJ. Tel: 0845 60 222 60. Quote reference
EiCN004.
Interchanges. Newsletter of
the Centre for Creative Communities, a charity that works
cross-sector in arts and education to promote the building
of creative and sustainable communities, where creativity
and learning have pivotal roles in personal, social and cultural
development. The newsletter gives information on collaborative
projects in the areas of arts, education and social regeneration.
Annual subscription £10 (UK rate).
Contact: Centre for Creative Communities, 118 Commercial Street,
London E1 6NF. Tel: 020 7247 5385.
Regen.net Website for
regeneration professionals from the publishers of Regeneration
and Renewal magazine, originally administered by the Office
of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Scottish Executive. It
provides a gateway to sources of information on regeneration
and a means of sharing experience and good practice. The site
includes a forum for visitors to ask questions, start a debate
or share experiences; and links to government guidance and
policy documents. www.regen.net
Neighbourhood Renewal: case studies
and conversations focusing on adult and community learning,
by Lenford White, is a book based on the premise that
neighbourhood renewal cannot be achieved without adult learning.
It uses case studies to demonstrate how a variety of organisations
have worked successfullly with adult learners in order to
empower communities and encourage participation in local decision-making.
£16.95.
Contact NIACE publications on 0116 204 4200.
New Start magazine. National
weekly magazine providing reports and analysis on all apsects
of countering social exclusion and building successful communities.
Issues covered include regeneration, economic development,
community safety, and neighbourhood / town centre management.
Cost £50 for a year's subscription.
Contact: Subs Department, New Start, 119 Station Road, Beaconsfield,
Bucks HP9 1LG. Tel: 01494 680858. Email: subs@newstartmag.co.uk.
www.newstartmag.co.uk.
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Aylesbury Revisited: Outreach in the
1980s. New edition of a report first published in 1981
to document what happened when a local education authority
allowed some of its employees to question, criticise and experiment
with some of its policies in delivering adult education, in
an attempt to find ways of doing things differently. It addresses
issues such as the pressures and actual work of outreach;
providers' relationships with voluntary organisations; what
it means to 'consult the community'; the tension between learner
focus and centralised bureaucracies; and staff development
and training. The report was reissued to coincide with the
renewed focus on adult education policy in 2001. Cost £14.95.
Contact: NIACE, 21 de Montfort Street, Leicester LE1 7GE.
Tel: 0116 204 4216.
Basic Skills and Political and Community
Participation. This free report, based on findings
from a study of adults born in 1958 and 1970, tracks the cross-over
between poor basic literacy and numeracy skills and involvement
in the broad polical process and community affairs. Research
was carrried out by Samantha Parsons andJohn Bynner of the
Centre for Longitudinol Studies at the Institute of Education.
Contact: Basic Skills Agency publications order line. Tel:
0870 600 2400. Reference A1265.
Building Learning Communities.
Pack produced by the Community Education Development Centre
(CEDC) to provide guidance to schools on developing their
role within the community. It focuses on activities, such
as study support programmes, school-business links and parental
involvement, which support pupils' learning and lead to higher
levels of achievement. It also looks at ways in which schools
can become centres of learning for the community. The pack
consists of three booklets: Making It Happen, a practical
guide for schools and their partners on developing their role
within their communities; 'We could do that!', case studies
of schools working with their communities; and Laying the
Foundations, examples of documents which schools have developed
to support their work with the community.
The pack is available free of charge from DfEE Publications,
PO Box 5050, Sherwood Park, Annesley, Nottingham NG15 0DJ.
Tel: 0845 60 222 60. Reference DfEE 0344/2000.
NIACE good practice guide that offers
an account of the creative approach used by Blackburn with
Darwen Local Authority to establish a learning community.
It is aimed at anyone working in adult and community learning,
widening participation, and community regeneration. Cost:
£9.95. ISBN 1 86201 205 9.
Contact: NIACE Publication Sales, 21 De Montfort Street, Leicester
LE1 7GE. Tel: 0116 204 2804. Website: www.niace.org.uk/publications/D/Dreams.asp The Extended Schools Support Service
(TESSS), offers guidance, information and support,
including Awareness raising on specific issues, ongoing (including
technical) advice on a range of issues related to developing
extended schools, regular briefings and seminars and professional
development opportunities. For details email extend.schools@continyou.org.uk
or call 024 7658 8472
Hungry to Read: new ways to promote
reading. Good practice guide produced by the Campaign
for Learning to outline the approaches taken by the first
100 projects funded by the BT Reading Challenge. Cost £12.95.
Contact: Campaign for Learning, 19 Buckingham Street, London
WC2N 6EF. Tel: 020 7930 1111. Fax: 020 7930 1551.
Lifelines in Adult Learning.
This series, produced by NIACE, provides background information
and examples of good practice in adult and community learning.
Each one of the four titles focuses on a different area: Community
education and neighbourhood renewal, Jane Thompson; Spreading
the word: reaching out to new learners, Veronica McGivney;
Managing community projects for change, Jan Eldred; Engaging
black learners in adult and community education, Lenford White.
Cost £6.95 each.
Contact: Publications Sales, NIACE, 21 de Montfort Street,
Leicester LE1 7GE. Tel: 0116 204 4200. Website: www.niace.org.uk.
Local Literacies: reading and writing in one community,
David Barton and Mary Hamilton. A book that researches
how people make use of reading and writing in a wide range
of contexts.
Published 1998, Routledge.
National Day Nurseries Association Toolkit. This support
kit is designed to help local authorities develop children's
centres. The good practice guidance was compiled via ten nationwide
networks set up by the NDNA. The networks included representatives
from Sure Start regional staff, health workers and JobCentre
Plus, as well as day nurseries and local authorities. Findings
from network working groups form the basis of the series of
ten guidance notes and five briefing notes, which will be
sent to every local authority in England as they are published.
The first three are: Ensuring sustainability in Sure Start
Children's Centres; Community engagement in Sure Start Children's
Centres; and a briefing note about how Worcestershire Early
Years and Childcare Service involved private providers in
developing children's centres. The guides can be downloaded
from www.ndna.org.uk.
Opening up a new world, Sue
Grief, Helen Murhpy, Bhupinder Nijjar and Helen Taylor, NIACE,
September 2002.
In 2001, the Learning and Skills Council provided funding
to extend literacy, numeracy and ESOL provision in local community
settings. This guide presents case studies of the good practice
developed by the projects, including engaging new learners,
partnerships, working with refugees and asylum seekers, staff
development, recording outcomes and using information technology.
Checklists of the key issues to consider are also provided.
Most of the successful projects funded under the programme
provided learners with a high level of guidance and support.
Tutors with a broad knowledge of the relevant local provision,
an understanding of the learners and who could relate to them
were well placed to offer guidance in an informal way. Bilingual
tutors who could communicate effectively with ESOL learners
were an asset. The importance of providing specialised support
for 'hard-to-reach' learners was also highlighted by many
successful projects while many basic skills staff found they
needed to do a lot of 'hanging around', for example in hostels
for the homeless, in order to raise awareness and address
the concerns of potential learners.
Feedback from participants indicated that key to the success
of community-focused provision were childcare facilities,
transport, easily-accessible venues and the timing of courses.
The factors not only overcame initial barriers but also helped
to maintain attendance levels.
Cost £6.95. Contact NIACE publications on 0116 204 4200
or visit www.niace.org.uk
Reaching out with basic skills,
produced by the Basic Skills Agency, is a practical guide
to community-focused basic skills work with socially excluded
groups. £4.50. Visit www.basic-skills.co.uk
or call 0870 600 2400 (product code A1411). This handbook is designed for learning providers, the voluntary sector
and other organisations, including statutory authorities, interested in
improving the basic skills of clients or user groups. It provides practical
guidance and examples of good practice, taken from the experience of the
Adult and Community Learning Fund (ACLF), around basic skills work with
adults new to learning. Chapters cover how to engage with new learners; how to get started (from a learning provider perspective); raising basic skills awareness among staff whose primary role is not educational; working in partnership; and ensuring that actual learning takes place. Suggestions are also given on how to 'move learners on' and encourage them to either continue learning, take up a college course or move into employment.
A video is also available to accompany the handbook, as a training resource.
Skills for Communities - a guide
produced by the National Institute for Adult Continuing Education
and the Department for Education and Skills. It aims to help
frontline community workers deal with clients who have literacy,
language or numeracy needs, and includes information that
they can pass on to the client. Download a copy from www.sfcguide.org.uk
Rural Learning: a practical guide
to learning opportunities in the countryside, John
Payne. This guide provides an overview of learning in the
countryside and includes information about the socio-economic
context such as access to services - shops, post offices and
village halls. The guide poses questions throughout to readers
to consider their own environment and local issues including,for
example, shortage of affordable housing, lack of transport,
local jobs and services. There is advice on approaches, drawn
from examples of successful adult learning initiatives in
the countryside, which encourage partnership working and a
business-like approach. For example, the Isle of Wight LETS
scheme, which shares skills using a local currency rather
than cash, offers (as well as plumbing and car maintenance)
help for letter writing or using IT - benefiting members who
either could not afford a college course or who are uncertain
about returning to learning. The guide looks at accreditation
available, learners' progression, and the evaluation and sustainability
of projects. The final chapter is a step by step "how-to"
that includes quick tips from writing a press release to running
a budget. Cost £14.95.
Published by the National Institute for Adult and Continuing
Education, November 2000. ISBN 1 86201 089 7. Contact
NIACE publications on 0116 204 4216.
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Holistic programme in three Liverpool
primary schools helps emotionally disturbed pupils. Several
primary schools in Liverpool have created a Quiet Place designed
to be environmentally magical to help children with emotional
and behavioural difficulties.
For more information on Quiet Place, visit www.cheiron-quietplace.com,
email info@cheiron-quietplace.com
or call 0151 794 2431.
Missing out: Key findings from Nacro's
research on children missing school. A report
looking at the reasons for and consequences of children dropping
out of school; barriers to identifying suitable non-school
alternatives; and success-factors for successful provision
for 'missing' children. £7.50
To order visit www.nacro.org.uk/publications/crime.htm
Priority steps to inclusion,
John Huskins. A handbook on addressing underachievement,
truancy and exclusion at key stages 3 and 4. The intended
audience is learning mentors, teachers, youth workers, Connexions
personal advisers and other inclusion workers. £25 (plus
£4 p&p).
Contact: John Huskins, 3 Somerset Street, Kingsdown, Bristol
BS2 8NB. Website: www.johnhuskins.com.
Rathbone
Rathbone runs a programme called Choices designed for young
people aged 14 to 16. It is a range of education and training
programmes designed for learners at Key Stage 4 who are experiencing
difficulties in their mainstream education. Rathbone helps
and supports young people who have been excluded or are at
risk of exclusion. For example, a part time Choices programme
can help them keep going with their existing education. Alternatively,
if formal education isn't meeting their needs or they have
been excluded, Rathbone can provide a full time programme.
Choices works through a combination of individual support,
tailor-made programmes, specialist training, and education
and work placements. Contact: Rathbone CI, Head Office, Churchgate
House, 56 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 6EU. Tel: 0161 236
5358. Fax: 0161 238 6356 Email: info@rathbone-ci.co.uk
The Place to Be offers therapeutic
and emotional support to children in schools. Working with
the children are trained and trainee counsellors, therapists
and special educationalists known as PsBs. The Place
To Be offers psychotherapy on school premises
to primary age children, and is already based at several schools
in south London and is being developed in clusters of other
regional schools. Feed-back from heads involved in the scheme
is very positive.
For more information, contact the Place To Be at Wapping Telephone
Exchange, Royal Mint Street, London, E1 8LQ Tel: 020 7780
6189 Email: enquiries@theplace2be.org.uk
Website: www.theplace2be.org.uk
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Prescribing learning: a guide to good
practice in learning and health, Kathryn James. NIACE
publication that provides an overview of good practice, looking
at the various approaches that have been taking by learning
and health providers in order to widen participation in learning
and reduce social exclusion. The guide covers how provision
has been set up and the issues and difficulties providers
have faced, as well as creative solutions to difficulties.
The emphasis is on collaborative and innovative approaches
that have clear health outcomes and promote well-being through
the use of learning opportunities. Cost £8.95.
Contact: NIACE, 21 De Montfort Street, Leicester LE1 7GE.
Website: www.niace.org.uk.
Winning hearts and minds,
Kathryn James (2004). NIACE guide to setting up a 'Prescriptions
for Learning' project, which bases a learning adviser in a
GP surgery or health centre to take referrals of individuals
and work with them to access appropriate learning opportunities.
Cost £9.95.
Contact: NIACE, 21 De Montfort Street, Leicester LE1 7GE.
Website: www.niace.org.uk.
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